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Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Been a little while since I have had a post. Been a little while since I have been motivated enough to write a new one. I have a few that are in draft mode but never published them because other Eve bloggers out there have beat those topics to death. Still, I may still publish them at some point. Oh yea, happy 2014...

I just printed out the minutes this weekend as as time allows I will read them and formulate my own opinions to share with all of you. Ever since 2013's fanfest I have found Eve to a a largely divided player base. Interestingly enough the minutes seem to reflect that in great detail. So lets proceed into the fist session. Download them here:
http://cdn1.eveonline.com/community/csm/CSM8_August_Summit_Minutes.pdf

Session 1 Basic Introductions and Design Theory

FIRST PARAGRAPH I have issues with what CCP Pokethulhu says and I quote:

"Pokethulhu pointed out his role as an interim EP was needed to handle the basic day to
day tasks of the role. Pokethulhu stressed that he doesn't intend to take or hold the
position. He further stressed that his full-time job has nothing to do with his marketing
duties."

"It doesn't signal any intention on CCP's part that marketing is going to drive the development of the game."

"The CSM was satisfied with this explanation and understood the needs of day-to-day operation"

Did we forget something here? This is only a half truth. Let me refresh your memory and while I am SHAME on CSM for giving this a pass. Only a few of the things that I will discuss in this article were brought up before they were releases to the Eve player base and most of them were not. They were not happily accepted at fanfest either. There were times when they spoke about these new things and CCP was greeted with silence.

Representin‘ for CCP will be Creative Director of EVE IP development
Torfi Frans Olafsson and Art Director of EVE IP development and one of
CCP‘s key concept artists Borkur Eiriksson.
Both have been part of EVE‘s core team for a very long time and in
various roles have contributed significantly to what the EVE Universe
has become over the years.1

While I was at fanfest I took notes and pictures. While he was onstage he spoke about many things and his connections to marketing and making Eve succeed in larger things are rest assured a top priority for both CCP and himself.

He not only spoke about the present and the future, just like ALL of the CCP developers did at this fanfest. They spoke about:

True Stories is a comic book loosely based upon a story from True Stories from the First Decade,
crowdsourced from the EVE community and adapted to comic book form. It
is something that we plan to do more of in the future, since the stories
of EVE players and their antics continue to amaze both us, the
mainstream media and the EVE community itself. The comic book will be
seperated into four chapters, each illustrated by a different artist,
which will be released digitally free of charge and then available for
purchase in pretty printed form.

EVE Universe – SOURCE takes a different approach. In
this thick, stylish lore-rich book, we are given an insight into the EVE
Universe, the races, the back story and the setting in more detail than
ever before. Loaded with both classic and original art from the
Universe, not only will SOURCE look splendid on your yin-yang coffee
table, but it will also provide you with a deep understanding and
immersion of New Eden, home of the immortal capsuleer (you).

Eve Stories which might be made into a Television series like Game of Thrones

...and with this chart they are DUPLICATION this for every division that they cover.

So this will dilute the funds even more, stretch staffing out that further and make it to where it will take forever to get anything done. Remember the this blog in in response to the minutes from the August Summit!

CCP is going to continue to promote Eve into bigger and better things and in turn they will dilute the one thing that got them here to begin with. Eve Online. The fact that the CSM gave them a pass on this is horrible and the CSM should be ashamed. I am not impressed with the minutes so far. The integrity of the sandbox has been compromised.